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Award Winners
National Stocker Award Winners
2007 Award Winners, Sponsored by Elanco and Beef Magazine...
Proactive Passion
With approximately 23% of the Lykes Bros. Ranch considered a wetland, one can imagine just how pivotal a role water management plays in the land-use decisions...
Beef Quality Advocate
The beef industry must work day to day to keep its eye on the target. That's the motivation for Carl Crabtree, a Grangeville, ID rancher, in his efforts to make sure Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) programming remains “job one” throughout the U.S. beef industry.
For nearly 20 years, BQA educational programming has reached thousands of beef and dairy producers in nearly every state. BQA concepts have been instrumental in...
Who are the new giants?
The cattle industry said goodbye to two of its greatest pioneers and champions recently. W.D. Farr, 97, of Greeley, CO, and Fred Johnson, 91, of Summitville,...
Know Your Strengths
When Shawn Mercer took over management of his grandparents' farming and cattle operation 15 years ago, he'd have given his eye teeth for a blueprint he could apply to the cattle business in general, and the stocker business specifically. After his grandfather died, Mercer and wife Katie struggled to figure out how to make the farm pay its way for another generation....
Follow the facts
I never felt so sick in my entire life because I realized how far behind we were, says Tom Gallery of the Gallery Ranch at Dewey, OK. He's remembering...
Match game
Grass management is our primary focus, emphasizes Scot Holcombe, this year's summer-stocker division winner in the National Stocker Award competition....
BIF Recognizes Top Genetic Contributors
The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF), meeting in Colorado Springs, CO, this week, is commemorating the 40th anniversary of its founding. Among the presentations and festivities, BIF presented a number of awards. ...
2006 Trailblazer Award
The Trailblazer Award is sponsored by New Holland and presented annually by BEEF magazine editorial staff to an industry individual or group whose industry contributions and farsighted leadership were instrumental in...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
